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Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, 

WILKES-BARRE, PENN'A. 



HISTORY, 



CHARTER, BY-LAWS, 



LIST OF OFFICERS, 



MEMBERS, ETC., 



Wyoming Historical aoi Geological Society, 




VVILKES-BARRE, PA. 

1907. 



Printed by The E. B. Yordy Co. 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 



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publi8l?io<} Committee, 
1907. 



Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, 

Miss Myra Poland. 

George Frederick Coddington. 



THE WYOMING HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 
WILKES-BARRE, PA. 

The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society was 
organized in the old Fell Tavern, Northampton street', 
Wi'lkes-Barre, February ii, 1858, to commemorate the suc- 
cessful experiment made by the Hon. Jesse Fell, February 
II, 1808, of burning the Wyoming Anthracite Coal in a 
domestic grate. The Society has had a continuous existence 
for fifty years. 

Its Fiftieth Anniversary will be celebrated February 11, 
1908. The Centennial of Jesse Fell's discovery, which has 
brought such immense wealth to the Wyoming Valley and 
Northeastern Pennsylvania, will also be celebrated by this 
Society on the same day. 

The experimental grate used by Judge Fell in his discov- 
ery has long ceased to exist, but one of his grates made and 
used by him in his home is preserved in the Society Rooms. 

The Society was organized to cover the original limits of 
Luzerne County (1858), therefore extends over the entire 
Counties of Luzerne, Wyoming and Lackawanna. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

The membership of the Society is divided into Honour- 
ary. Corresponding and Resident members, and the latter 
into Life Members and Annual Members ; the annual dues 
being five dollars, and the Life Members' dues, which cover 
all financial obligations and constitute on invested "Life 
Membership Fund," one hundred dollars. 

The Life Memberships number 150, of whom nine 
subscriptions are not yet due, thus the Life Membership 
Fund is $14,100. 

Any person who contributes to the Society at one time a 
sum not less than One Thousand Dollars, will be placed on 
the Life Membership list as a "Benefactor." 



O HISTORY. 

BUILDING. 

The Home of the Society is a handsome edifice of brick 
in the rear of the "Osterhout Free Library," South Frank- 
lin Street, Wilkes-Barre, facing the street. This building is 
provided by the will of the late Isaac S. Osterhout, a member 
of the Society, who, in founding the well-established "Os- 
terhout Free Library" of this city, generously provided this 
Society with a permanent home, free from all charges of 
rent, light, heat or repairs. No financial aid was given 
with this fine legacy. The building itself is 40 feet wide 
by 60 feet long, and three stories high. Its interior furnish- 
ing of cases, desks, etc., is the work of the Society. It is 
supplied with a fine large fire proof safe in which the rare 
manuscripts of the Society are preserved, 

LIBRARY. 

The Library of the Society contains 18,000 books and 
pamphlets, very few of which are duplicated by either the 
"Osterhout Free Librai-y" of 38,000 books, or the "Albright 
Free Library" of Scranton, Pa., of 53,000 books. 

Of the Society books, 16,000 are on American History 
and Genealogy, and 2000 on Geology. The Library has 
also 1200 bound volumes of local newspapers; the only full 
set of United States "Statutes at Large" in Northeastern 
Pennsylvania; and, being also a Pennsylvania State Depos- 
itory and a United States Depository, contains every title 
published by the State and the General Government. 

The Department of Genealogy, English and American, 
contains nearly 1000 volumes. 

While this Society is a private institution, supported solely 
by the dues of its members, and the income from its own en- 
dowment, it has opened its library and museum for reference 
and study to the public free, each week day from 10 A. M. 
to 5 P. M. The annual visiting list of schools, classes and 
individuals numbers between 6000 and 7000 persons. 



HISTORY. 7 

As before stated, the "Osterhout Free Library," whose 
building is only 25 feet distant from the Society Rooms, and 
also the Scranton Free Library, 20 miles to the East of 
Wilkes-Barre, two libraries aggregating near 100,000 vol- 
umes, buy very few books on American History and Geology, 
and none on Genealogy, but refer all students to the library 
of this Society for such subjects. It is therefore the pur- 
veyor of these three lines of study for almost the entire 
Northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. 

Of magazines alone, pertaining to these subjects, the So- 
ciety keeps on file one hundred not found in the above free 
libraries. 

A card catalogue, covering all the books in the library 
(except those of the United States Depository of about 4000 
volumes) facilitates research, and the Librarians gladly 
serve all inquirers who visit the institution. Owing to the 
lack of funds the work of cataloguing the Depository books 
and the large annual additions to the library has been neces- 
sarily suspended. 

GEOLOGY. 

The Geological department of the Society contains 2000 
books and pam.phlets on Geology, including nearly com- 
plete sets of the publications of the Geological surveys of 
the United States Government, Canada, and Mexico, and 
the surveys of the various States of the Union, Geological 
magazines, etc. 

The Geological cabinets contain the fine collection of 5000 
Paleozoic fossils presented by the late Ralph D. Lacoe ; and 
the Christian H. Scharar collection of nearly 1000 Paleozoic 
fossils from the outcropping of the Carboniferous limestone 
at Mill Creek, Luzerne County, Pa., now covered by tons of 
culm ; also 3000 carefully arranged mineralogical specimens, 
with about 3000 fine examples of the anthracite coal flora, 
Paleobotany, numbering 200 types arranged by the late 
Curator R. D. Lacoe, and classified by him and Prof. Leo 
Lesquereux. 



8 HISTORY. 

The Paleozoic Collection is kept in a separate room, with 
an excellent library for the use of students. It is, however, 
made practical to the public, and especially to schools and 
students, by a carefully arranged case, in the Geological 
Room, containing representative specimens showing the Ter- 
restrial strata from the Archaean to the Cenozoic age. 

ETHNOLOGY. 

The Ethnological department of the Society contains an 
excellent library on the subject, and an unusually fine col- 
lection of Indian relics of the highest quahty, almost wholly 
from the watershed of the Susquehanna River and number- 
ing fully 25,000 pieces. 

This includes the "A. J. Griffith Collection", found in and 
around Pittston; the "Colonel Zebulon Butler Collection," 
from the Wyoming Valley; the "h. Dennison Stearns Col- 
lection" and others, and especially the "Christopher Wren 
Collection" of 10,000 pieces from the Susquehanna river re- 
gion from the New York line to the West Branch, formed 
and presented by the Curator of Ethnology and bearing his 
name. Also the superior collection made by A. F. Berlin 
of Allentown, of 3000 pieces, one-third of which are from 
Pennsylvania and the rest from other parts of the United 
States. This last collection, bought by the Society, con- 
tains many exceedingly fine and rare pieces from Maine to 
Oregon, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. 

The collection of Indian pots in the possession of the So- 
ciety (fifteen in number and all local) has been pronounced 
the finest collection of Algonquin pottery in the United States. 

There are also valuable collections of Colonial domestic 
utensils. Revolutionary and Wyoming Massacre relics, me- 
mentoes of the War of 181 2, the Mexican War, and the 
Civil War, 1861-1865, and the war with Spain, also Hawaian 
fabrics, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese, Philippine, African and 
other countries. The American articles are worthy of a 
visit to the Rooms. 



HISTORY. 9 

PUBLICATIONS. 

The Society has issued nine volumes of "Proceedings and 
Collections," and twenty-five pamphlet titles, containing 
various papers on American History, Geology, Ethnology, 
Numismatics, etc. 

These volumes are well known in historical and scien- 
tific circles. Each member receives them without cost. The 
remainders are used for exchanges or are sold to increase 
the special funds of the Society. 

Volume IX was issued in 1906. Volume X is ready for 
the printer, but owing to the lack of funds, and the great 
increase of the cost of printing, fully 100 per cent, its issue 
will be delayed until the financial condition improves. 

MEETINGS. 

The Society holds at least four regular meetings annually, 
for the transaction of business, the reading of papers, or the 
delivery of lectures by selected persons on the subjects per- 
taining to the purposes of the institution, to which meetings 
the interested public is invited. 

Several meetings are also held annually under the auspices 
of the Coal Companies, at which free lectures are given by 
expert speakers, illustrated when possible, on some subject 
connected with the coal industry, for the profit of inspectors, 
managers and foremen of the mines, who attend in large 
numbers. 

FINANCES. 

During the first 25 years of its existence the Society had 
no Endowment fund. In 1889, by the sale of a lot on Wash- 
ington Street, a part of the "Old Graveyard," donated to the 
Society in 1870 by the City of Wilkes-Barre, a fund of $4,500 
was created, and later increased to $5000 by five Life ]\Iem- 
berships. When the present Librarian entered upon his du- 
ties as such, in 1897, the Endowment fund had reached, by 



10 HISTORY. 

addition of Life Memberships, $8000, of which he had per- 
sonally secured $2000. In the past ten years the Librarian 
has raised the $8000 to over $25,000, carefully invested by 
the Trustees at five and six per cent. 

But the Society has grown so rapidly in those ten years 
that its needs exceed its income and demand a larger En- 
dowment. Its well selected library and its scientific cabinets 
have become very important educational factors, and of the 
thousands that annually visit the Society fully ten per cent., 
between 600 and 700 persons, come for the purpose of study. 

At the 49th Annual Meeting, February 10, 1907, it was 
unanimously resolved to celebrate the Semi-centennial, the 
50th anniversary, of the founding of the Society; and also 
the Centennial of Judge Fell's successful experiment in 
burning Wyoming Anthracite Coal for domestic use, by in- 
creasing the Endowment Fund of the Society to $50,000. 

The following members were appointed a Committee to 
carry this resolution into effect : 

Major Irving A. Stearns, President. 

Messrs. Edward Welles, Henry H. Ashley, Andrew F. 
Derr, Richard Sharpe, Andrew Hunlock, Trustees. 

Rev. Horace E. Hayden, Librarian. 

Sidney R. Miner, Recording Secretary. 

Charles W. Bixby, Treasurer. 

The appeal is a most earnest and urgent one to the public 
spirit of our members, who are among the most liberal and 
able citizens of the old County of Luzerne of 1858. 

The Society is one that confers honour on its members. 

Its reputation is widely known all over this continent. 

Its publications have attracted the attention of Historical 
and Scientific Societies and scholars throughout the Union. 

Its value as an educator is recognized all over the Com- 
monwealth of Pennsylvania. 



HISTORY. 1 1 

SPECIAL FUNDS. 

Permanently invested at 5% the Special Funds of the So- 
ciety are : 

1. "Harrison Wright Fund," given by Wright 

family, yields $50 for English Family History. . $1,000 00 

2. "Sheldon Reynolds Fund," given by Reynolds 

family, yields $50 for scarce American History. 1,000 00 

3. "Ralph D. Lacoe Fund," given by the Society 
and his family (minimum $1000) now yields 

$40 for Lacoe collections 800 00 

4. "Charles F. Ingham Fund," given by Society 
(minimum $1000) now yields $27.50 for 
Geology 550 00 

5. "Col. Zebulon Butler Fund," given by his de- 
scendants (minimum $1000) now yields $35 for 
Ethnology 750 00 

6. "Horace E. Hayden Fund," secured by Libra- 
rian, named by Trustees, yields $50 for annual 
Geological lecture 1,000 00 

7. "L. Denison Stearns Fund," given by his par- 
ents, yields $50 for general expenses 1,000 00 

8. "Col. Matthias Hollenback Fund," given by 
John Welles Hollenback, yields $50 for general 
expenses 1,000 00 

9. "Life Membership Fund," 141 members, yields 

$710 for general expenses 14,100 00 

10. "General Fund," yields $215 for expenses.. 4,300 00 

$25,400 00 
Annual income from funds $i>257 00 

Annual income from dues 950 00 

$2,207 00 

No. 3 and 4 will be completed ultimately by sale of Society 
publications. No. 5 by descendants. No. 9 will reach 
$15,000 by subscriptions due Dec. 31, 1907. 



12 HISTORY. 



INVESTMENTS. 



Spring Brook Water Co., par value $7,000 00 5% 

Plymouth Bridge Co., par value 6,000 00 5% 

Webster Coal & Coke Co., par value 5,ooo 00 5^ 

Miner-Hillard Milling Co., par value . . . 1,000 00 5% 

Peoples Telephone Co., par value 1,000 00 5% 

Sheldon Axle Co., par value 1,000 00 5% 

United Gas and Electric Co., N. J., par value 1,000 00 5% 

Mortgages 2,100 00 6% 

Savings Bank 1,000 00 3% 

Westmoreland Club 300 00 3% 

$25,400 00 
FINANCIAL NEEDS OF THE SOCIETY. 

The attention of all persons interested in Historical, Gen- 
ealogical and Geological research is called to the following 
estimate of the financial needs of the Society, the money to 
be permanently invested: 

For a Publication Fund, to cover the issue of the 
annual volume, the material return to each mem- 
ber for his dues, the cost of which averages annu- 
ally $500 $10,000 00 

For a Catalogue Fund to meet the necessary ex- 
penses of a skilled cataloguer to keep the library 
up to date for readers 10,000 00 

For a Binding Fund to bind books, for which al- 
ready over 500 volumes have been waiting several 
years 5,000 00 

For an Emergency Fund to meet immediate de- 
mands for cases, books, binding, curtains, etc. . . . 1,000 00 

Owing to the necessity of meeting the deficiency in the 
Cataloguing Fund the Society has been compelled to draw 
from its Current Fund $400 which is not yet replaced. 

We need much additional shelving, cases, etc., and the 
Library and Collections must suffer until these are provided. 
By order of the Committee, 

Horace; Edwin Haydejn^ 
Corresponding Secretary and Librarian. 



CHARTER. 



To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of 
Luserne County: 

The petition of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society 
respectfully represents : That they are an association duly incor- 
porated under the laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
by the decree of this Court duly made on the loth day of May, 
A. D. 1858, for literary and scientific purposes, such as are 
embraced within corporations of the first class specified in sec- 
tion second of an act of the General Assembly of this common- 
wealth entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation and 
regulation of certain corporations," approved on the 29th day 
of April, A. D. 1874. That in pursuance of the provisions of 
the said act of the General Assembly, they are desirious of im- 
proving, amending and altering the articles and conditions of 
their charter so as to come under the provisions of and have the 
powers and immunities of the said act of General Assembly and 
its supplements, the same as though they were originally incor- 
porated thereunder, and to abolish, abandon, and be forever re- 
leased from all and singular the articles and conditions of their 
present charter which in any manner do or may conflict or in- 
terfere with the same, or with the certificate and provisions here- 
inafter set forth; and at a meeting of said corporation, duly 
convened, the following improvements, amendments and alter- 
ations of the said charter were duly adopted : 

The first section or article of said old charter shall be left as 
it now stands, so as to read as follows, to-wit : 

I. The name of this corporation shall be the Wyoming His- 
torical and Geological Society. 

The second section of article of said old charter shall be 
amended and altered so as to read as follows, to-wit : 

II. The purposes for which it is chartered are literary, scien- 
tific and historical, for the collection and maintenance of a 
library and museum, and especially for the collection and pres- 
ervation of relics and records connected with, and calculated to 
elucidate, the history of Wyoming Valley and its vicinity. 

And to strike out and annul all the other sections of said old 
charter, and amend and alter the same so as to read as follows, 
to-wit : 

III. The place where the business of said association is to be 
transacted is Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 

IV. The term for which it is to exist is perpetual. 



14 CHARTER, 

V. The corporation has no capital stock. The membership 
thereof shall be composed of the present members, and of such 
other persons as may, from time to time, be admitted by vote, 
in such manner and upon such requirements as may be pre- 
scribed by the by-laws. The said corporation shall nevertheless 
have power to exclude, expel or suspend members for such just 
and legal causes, and in such legal manner as may be ordained 
and directed by the by-laws. 

VI. The oversight and management of the said corporation 
shall be vested in a board of five Trustees, and such officers of 
the corporation as may, under the by-laws, be Trustees ex-ofhcio. 
The said five Trustees shall be elected annually by members of 
the corporation on such day and at such place as may be fixed 
by the by-laws. The said Trustees shall hold their offices until 
the next annual election, and until their successors are legally 
elected, subject, nevertheless, to the power of a motion of any 
Trustee from the said office by the said corporation for legal 
cause and upon such proper and legal notice and hearing as may 
be provided by the by-laws. The names and residences of those 
chosen Trustees, who shall hold office until the next annual 
election of Trustees, and until their successors are legally elected, 
are: 

Charles F. Ingham, M. D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Edward P. Darling, Esq., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Ralph D. Lacoe, Esq., Pittston, Pa. 
Sheldon Reynolds, Esq., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Harrison Wright, Esq., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

This corporation shall be subject to the provisions of, and 
have all the powers, immunities and privileges granted, or in- 
tended to be granted, to corporations of the first class, by the 
above recited act of Assembly, approved 29th of April, A. D. 
1874, and its supplements. 

VII. The by-laws of this corporation shall be deemed and 
taken to be its laws, subordinate to the statute aforesaid, this 
charter, the constitution and laws of the United States, and of 
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. They shall be altered and 
amended as provided for by one of the by-laws themselves, and 
shall prescribe the powers and functions of the Trustees herein, 
and those to be hereafter elected; the times and place of meet- 
ing of the Trustees and of the members of this corporation for 
the various purposes and needs of this corporation; the number 
of members who shall constitute a quorum at the meeeting of the 
members of this corporation and of the Trustees ; the qualifica- 
tions and manner of electing members ; the manner of electing 
officers, and the powers and duties of such officials and all other 
the concerns and internal management of said corporation. 



CHARTER. 1 5 

VIII. These amendments shall be deemed and taken to be 
subject to and under the present constitution of the common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania, and the act of General Assembly afore- 
said, and its supplements, their purpose and object being to 
come within the provisions of and to possess the powers and 
immunities of the same. 

X. All articles and provisions of the said constitution, granted 
May loth, A. D. 1858', which in anywise interfere with the fore- 
going provisions, are hereby annulled, superseded by and merged 
into this amended charter. 

The foregoing report of the committee, in form of petition to 
the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of 
Luzerne county, passed third reading at the meeting of the 
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, held December ist, 
A. D. 1882, was voted upon by sections and unanimously 
adopted, and committee (consisting of Edward P. Darling, J. 
W. Hollenback and W. P. Ryman) continued with request to 
press to confirmation by the court. 

Certified from the records of the society. 

Harrison Wright, Rec. Sec'y, 
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. 



Luzerne County, ss: 

In the Common Pleas, No. 158, January term, 1883. In the matter 
of the amendment of the charter of the Wyoming Historical and 
Geological Society : 

And now, the nth day of December, A. D. 1882, the fore- 
going amendment and alterations of the charter of the Wyo- 
ming Historical and Geological Society having been duly pre- 
sented to this Court, in order that the same might be deemed 
and taken to be part of the charter of said corporation, and it 
appearing that such amendments and alterations are lawful and 
beneficial, and do not conflict with the requirements of the act 
of the General Assembly of this commonwealth, entitled "An 
Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain 
corporations," approved the 29th day of April, 1S74, nor with 
the constitution of this State, it is hereby ordered and decreed 
that notice thereof shall be given by publication in accordance 
with the statute in such case made and provided. 

By the Court. 

And now, this 15th day of January, A. D. 1883, the within 
amendments, alterations and improvements having been pre- 
sented to this Court, accompanied by due proof of publication 
of notice thereof, and no cause having been shown to the con- 



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CHARTER. 



trary, it is, on motion of W. P. Ryman, Esq., ordered and de- 
creed that upon the recording of the same the said amendments, 
alterations and improvements as within set forth, shall be deemed 
and taken to be the charter of the said corporation. 
By the Court. Chari^es E- Rice, 

President Judge. 
State of Pennsylvania, 



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County of Luserne 

Recorded in the office for recording deeds, etc., in and for 
said county, in Charter Book No. i, page 527, etc. 

Witness my hand and official seal, at Wilkes-Barre, this 15th 
day of January, 1882. 

r ' ' > -^ C. J. VOLKENAND, 

1 ,_ J Recorder. 

per H. W. HeidEnrEich, 
Deputy. 



BY-LAWS. 



MEMBERSHIP. 

1. The membership shall consist of four classes : Resident, 
Corresponding, Honorary and Life. 

2. The election of members shall be by ballot, and three-fourths 
of all ballots shall be necessary to elect. The names of candi- 
dates for membership, together with the names of the members 
by whom they are proposed, shall be read at a meeting of the 
society, and shall not be balloted for until the next succeeding 
stated meeting. Candidates for resident membership shall make 
application in writing. 

Amended as follows : All names proposed for membership shall 
be referred to the Board of Trustees as a committee on member- 
ship, and upon the affirmative recommendation of a majority of such 
committee shall be voted upon at any meeting of the Society. The 
Board of Trustees may, by majority approval, place any name on 
the Life Membership roll on payment of one hundred dollars. 

3. Any person not residing within the original limits of the 
county of Luzerne may be elected a corresponding member. A 
resident member upon removing from the county may become 
a corresponding member, on giving notice of his removal and 
paying all arrears ; a corresponding member cannot continue such 
after returning to the county for permanent residence, but may 
become a resident member. 

4. Any person of recognized attainments in science or belles- 
lettres shall be eligible to honorary membership. 

5. No member who shall be in arrears for two years shall be 
entitled to vote or be eligible to any office ; and any failure to 
pay annual dues for two consecutive years, after due notice from 
the Treasurer, shall be considered a forfeiture of membership ; 
and no person whose name shall be expunged from the rolls of 
the society under the provisions of this clause shall be reinstated 
without the payment of his arrears, and then only at a regular 
meeting, by a majority vote of the members present. 

6. The fiscal year of the Society shall begin January first. 
Resident members shall pay, upon admission, the sum of five 
dollars, and after the next succeeding annual meeting the sum 
of five dollars each year, excepting that persons elected after 
October ist in any year shall be exempt from payment of dues 
for that year. The payment of one hundred dollars at one time 
by a member not in arrears shall constitute him a life-member, 
with an exemption from all future payments. Any person con- 
tributing to the Society at any one time a sum of not less than 



1 8 BY-LAWS. 

one thousand dollars shall be placed on the Life Membership list 
as a "Benefactor." The Life Membership list shall be published 
annually. 

All moneys received on account of life-memberships shall be 
securely invested by the Board of Trustees in the name of the 
Society, and shall form a fund to be called the Life-Membership 
Fund, the interest only of vs^hich shall be available for the uses of 
the Society. The fund called the Harrison Wright Fund, and any 
other such special fund shall be likev^rise invested and the in- 
terest used. The Trustees shall pay to the Treasurer annually 
the accrued interest of said funds, or add the same to the funds as 
fliey deem for the best interests of the Society. Correspond- 
ing and honorary members shall not be required to pay an en- 
trance fee or annual dues. 

7. Resignation of membership shall be made in writing ad- 
dressed to the President of the Society, 

OFMCERS AND COMMITTEES. 

8. The officers of the Society shall be a President, a board of 
five Trustees, four Vice Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a 
Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, a Librarian, an Assistant 
Librarian, five Curators, a Meteorologist, and a Historiographer. 
The officers shall be elected at the annual meeting, and hold 
office for one year, and until their successors are elected. 

9. The President, or in his absence, the highest officer present, 
shall preside at all meetings of the Society, and regulate the order 
thereof, and when required give the casting vote. The President 
shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 

10. The Recording Secretary shall keep full minutes of all 
meetings, and have the same transcribed into a book of record. 
He shall have custody of the by-laws, records, and all papers 
appertaining to his office. He shall give notice of the time and 
place of all meetings. 

11. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct all the corres- 
pondence, and preserve on file all communications addressed to the 
Society. He shall keep a letter-press, or other fair copy of all 
letters written by him, and read at each meeting such part of the 
correspondence as the President may direct. He shall notify 
officers and members of their election, and communicate all special 
votes to parties interested therein, and acknowledge all gifts to 
the several departments. 

12. The Treasurer shall collect the annual dues of the mem- 
bers, and other income of the Society, and deposit the money in 
one of the Wilkes-Barre banks to the credit of the Society, subject 
to the check of the Treasurer. He shall pay under proper vouchers 
all the ordinary expenses of the Society; and shall, at the annual 



BY-LAWS. 19 

meeting, present a statement of the receipts and expenditures 
during the year, together with a full report of the financial condition 
of the Society. He shall give a bond for the faithful performance 
of his duties in a sum to be fixed by the Trustees, and by them 
held as security. 

13. The Librarian shall preserve and arrange in proper order 
all books, pamphlets, documents, manuscripts and other papers of 
the Society, and keep a catalogue of the same, numbering them 
with the proper numbers of both the general and special catalogues. 
He shall keep a record of all gifts and bequests to this department, 
with the date and name of the donor. 

14. There shall be one Curator for each of the following de- 
partments : Archaeology and History ; Numismatics ; Geology and 
Mineralogy; Paleontology, and Paleozoology, or the Lacoe Fossil 
Collection. Each Curator shall have the charge and management of 
the special department assigned to his care, and shall arrange, 
classify and catalogue the same in such manner as shall be approved 
by the Cabinet Committee. He shall keep a record of all gifts to his 
department, together with the date and name of donor. When, 
however, in the judgment of the Cabinet Committee additional aid 
is needed in any department above named, assistant Curators may 
be appointed or electel from members of the Society, whose work 
shall be under the direction of the Curator of such department and 
of the Cabinet Committee. 

15. The Trustees shall have entire charge of the business man- 
agement of the affairs of the Society. They shall examine and audit 
the accounts of the Treasurer, and authorize and direct the in- 
vestment of the surplus funds. They shall make such appropriations 
from the funds for the library, cabinets and other purposes as in 
their judgment shall seem necessary. They shall have the power to 
remit the dues of members in cases when circiunstances render it 
proper. 

16. The President, Librarian and the five Curators shall consti- 
tute a Cabinet Committee who shall have supervisory care of the 
library and collections. They shall direct the manner of expendi- 
ture of the moneys appropriated by the Trustees for the mainten- 
ance and increase of the. library and cabinets, and provide suitable 
cases, fixtures and supplies, and have authority to make exchanges. 
They shall make a detailed report at the annual meeting showing 
the condition of the departments under their care. 

17. A Publishing Committee shall be appointed by the President, 
consisting of three members, to hold office one year, who shall pre- 
pare for publication and superintend the printing and distribution 
to members of all papers and documents which by the Society ara 
ordered to be printed. The publications not distributed to mem- 
bers or exchanged with kindred societies shall be sold by the 



20 BY-LAWS. 

Trustees and the proceeds added to the Harrison Wright Fund and 
such other funds as they think best. 

i8. The Meteorologist shall keep a record of the temperature, 
barometric pressure, direction and velocity of winds, degree of 
cloudiness, and amount of rainfall by daily observations, and as 
nearly as practicable at the hours adopted by the U. S. Signal 
Service department, and submit reports thereof at each stated meet- 
ing. 

19. The Historiographer shall collate and keep a record of such 
current events of local or public interest as he may deem worthy 
of preservation ; and prepare notices of members deceased during 
his term of office. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

20. The annual meeting shall be held on the eleventh day of 
February, at eight o'clock P. M. ; in case, however, the same falls 
on Sunday, the meeting shall be held on the preceding Saturday. 
Stated meetings thereafter shall be held on the second Friday of 
May, October and December, at eight o'clock in the evening, at 
the hall of the Society. The President may call special meetings 
whenever he shall deem it necessary. Seven members shall consti- 
tut a quorum at any meeting. 

21. The Trustees shall hold regular meetings four times each 
year, to-wit: on the day of the stated or called meetings of the 
Society; also adjourned and special meetings as may be necessary. 
A majority of the Trustees shall be a quorum. 

22. All reports of committees must be in writing and addressed 
to the President, and shall be recorded by the Recording Secretary 

23. All books, pamphlets and manuscripts shall be regularly 
numbered and marked with the name "Wyoming Historical and 
Geological Society," and bear the proper numbers of the general 
and special catalogues. 

24. All gifts to the library or cabinet shall, when practicable, 
have the name of the donor attached thereto. 

25. No article belonging to the Society shall be taken from the 
rooms without permission of the Cabinet Committee. 

26. No person shall have the right to use any manuscript of the 
Society in the preparation of any paper or essay unless such paper or 
essay shall be read before the Society and become its property. 

27. The Society shall select, at the annual meeting, one of the 
members, or some other suitable person, to deliver an address at 
the succeeding annual meeting. 

28. If any member shall violate the laws and regulations of the 
Society with intent to injure its interests, written charges may be 
preferred against such member at any meeting, and, after reason- 



BY-LAWS. 21 

able notice and hearing, the Society may, at the next stated meeet- 
ing, by a three-fourths affirmative vote of all members present, 
fine, suspend or expell the offending member. 

29. The by-laws may be amended at a stated meeting by a vote 
of two-thirds of the members present; provided the proposed* 
amendments shall have been read at the stated meeting next pre- 
ceding. 

30. Cushing's Manual shall be deemed and taken as part of the 
law of this Society, subject, however, to its charter and by-laws. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS AT ALL MEETINGS OTHER THAN 
ANNUAL MEETINGS. 

I. The Recording Secretary shall enter on the minutes the 
names of members present. 

II. Minutes of last stated, and of any subsequent special, 

meeting read for correction and approval. 

III. Acknowledgment of contributions. 

IV. Reading of correspondence. 
V. Nominations for membership. 

VI. Balloting for candidates for membership. 

VII. Reports of officers and committees. 

VIII. Deferred business. 

IX. New business. 

X. Addresses. 

XL Adjournment. 

ORDER OE BUSINESS AT ANNUAL MEETINGS. 

I. Meeting opened with prayer. 
II, Recording names of members present. 

III. Reading of minutes of last stated and all subsequent 

meetings. 

IV. Election of officers for ensuing year. 
V. Reports of officers and committees. 

VI. Notices of death of members read. 

VII. Nominations for membership and balloting for candidates. 

VIII. Resolutions and miscellaneous business. 

IX. Addresses. 

X. Adjournment. 



OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1907. 



PRESIDENT. 
IRVING ARIEL STEARNS. 

VICE PRESIDENTS. 
Rev. HENRY LAWRENCE JONES, S. T. D., 
Dr. LEWIS HARLOW TAYLOR, 
Dr. LEVI IVES SHOEMAKER, 
DORRANCE REYNOLDS. 

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN, 

Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN. 

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN. 

Miss ERNESTINE MARTIN KAEHLIN. 

RECORDING SECRETARY. 
SIDNEY ROBY MINER. 

TREASURER. 
CHARLES WELLES BIXBY. 

TRUSTEES. 
ANDREW FINE DERR, ANDREW HUNLOCK, 

EDWARD WELLES, RICHARD SHARPE, 

HENRY HERBERT ASHLEY. 

CURATORS. 

Archaeology— CHRISTOPHER WREN. 
Numismatics— Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN. 
Mineralogy— WILLIAM REYNOLDS RICKETTS. 
Paleontology— JOSHUA LEWIS WELTER. 
Paleobotany— WILLIAM GRIFFITH. 

HISTORIOGRAPHER. 
FREDERICK CHARLES JOHNSON, M. D. 

PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. 

Rev. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN. 

Miss MYRA POLAND. 

GEORGE FREDERICK CODDINGTON, 



ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP. 



HONORARY. 



Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, LL. D. 
Mrs. Andrew Jackson Griffith. 
Rev. Samuel Hart, D. D. 
Hon. Henry Martyn Hoyt. 
Rev. Henry H. Jessup, D. D. 
Rt. Rev. J. M. Levering, D. D. 



Frederick B. Peck, Ph. D. 
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker. 
William Berryman Scott, Ph. D. 
Rev. Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, LL.D. 
David White, Washington, D. C. 
Edward H. Williams, Jr., F. G. S. A. 



CORRESPONDING. 



Edwin Swift Balch. 

Thomas Willing Balch. 

Edmund Mills Barton. 

T. V. Braidwood. 

D. L. Belden. 

Alfred Franklin Berlin. 

Maynard Bixby. 

Robert Alonzo Brock, F. R. H. S. 

Philip Alexander Bruce, LL. B. 

George Butler. 

Pierce Butler. 

Capt. John M. Buckalew. 

Gen. John S. Clark. 

Rev. Sanford Hoadley Cobb. 

Rev. David Craft. 

D. M. CoUins. 

Stewart Culin. 

Samuel L. Cutter. 

John H. Dager. 

Charles Edmund Dana. 

Harry Cassell Davis, A. M., Ph. D. 

Gen. Wm. Watts H. Davis. 

Rev. Samuel Bayard Dod, A. M. 

Elnathan F. Duren. 

George M. El wood. 

Prof. William Frear, PJi. D. 

Hon. John Gosse Freeze. 

George W. Fish. 

Frank Butler Gay. 

William Griffith. 

P. C. Gritman. 

Francis Whiting Halsey. 

Stephen Harding. 

David Chase Harrington. 

A. L. Hartwell. 

Christopher E. Hawley. 

Granville Henry. 



Edward Herrick, Jr. 

Ray Greene Huling, Sc. D. 

Hon. William Huntling Jessup. 

Charles Johnson. 

John Wolfe Jordan, LL. D. 

Rev. Charles H. Kidder. 

Rev. Cornelius Rutser Lane, Ph. D. 

Dr. J. R. Loomis. 

Prof. Otis T. Mason, Ph. D., LL. D. 

Hon. John Maxwell. 

Edward Miller. 

J. M. McMinn. 

Thomas Lynch Montgomery. 

Millard P. Murray. 

John Peters. 

James H. Phinney. 

Rev. J. J. Pearce. 

William Poillon. 

S. R. Reading. 

J. C. Rhodes. 

Joseph Trimble Rothrock, M. D. 

H. N. Rust, M. D. 

Lieut. Henry M. M. Richards. 

William M. Samson. 

Mrs. Gertrude (Grififith) Sanderson. 

Horace See. 

W. H. Starr. 

Col. William Leete Stone. 

Thomas Sweet, M. D. 

S. L. Thurlow. 

Hon. Charles Tubbs. 

Samuel French Wadhams. 

Maj. Harry P. Ward. 

Abram Waltham. 

Mrs. Margaret (Lacoe) White. 

William Alonzo Wilcox. 



ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP. 



25 



*LIFE MEMBERS. 

By payment of |ioo. 

FOUNDERS. 

*James Plater Dennis. 
*Col. John Butler Conyngham. 
*Hon. Henry Martyn Hoyt. 
*Hon. Stanley Woodward. 

♦♦BENEFACTORS. 

*Gen. William Sterling Ross. 
■^Isaac Smith Osterhout. 

John Welles Hollenback. 

Irving Ariel Stearns. 

Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden. 



Miss Lucy W. Abbott. 

Henry Herbert Ashley. 

Thomas Henry Atherion. 

*Miss Emily Isabella Alexander. 

George Reynolds Bedford. 

George Slocum Bennett. 

*Mrs. Priscilla (Lee) Bennett. 

*Miss Martha Bennet. 

Charles Welles Bixby. 

Robert Packer Broadhead. 

*Samuel LeRoi Brown. 

Mrs. Emily (Ryman) Burlingham. 

Mrs. Anna Bennett (Phelps) Burrows. 

William Lord Conyngham. 

*Mrs. Mae (Turner) Conyngham. 

^Alexander B. Coxe. 

*Hon. Eckley Brinton Coxe. 

Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. 

Mrs. Sophie G. (Fisher) Coxe. 

*John M. Crane. 

*Hon. Edmund Lovell Dana. 

*Edward Payson Darling. 

Thomas Darling. 

*Mrs. Alice (McClintock) Darling. 

Mrs. Dorothy Ellen (Dickson) Darte. 

Andrew Fine Derr. 

Mrs. Mary D. (Fell) Derr. 

Mrs. Harriet (Lowrie) Derr. 

*Henry H. Derr. 

Mrs. Kate (Pettebone) Dickson. 

Hon. Charles Dorrance Foster. 

Alexander Farnham. 

•Deceased. 



*Lt. Joseph Wright Graeme, U. S. 

Mrs. Sarah H. (Wright) Guthrie. 

*Col. Elisha Atherton Hancock. 

*Hon. Garrick Mallery Harding. 

Henry Harrison Harvey. 

Mrs. Jennie (DeWitt) Harvey. 

James C. Hay don. 

Frederick Hillman. 

George B. Hillman. 

*H. Baker Hillman. 

Miss Amelia B. Hollenback. 

Miss Anna Welles Hollenback. 

Miss Julietta Geneve Hollenback. 

Andrew Hunlock. 

*Charles Farmer Ingham, M. D. 

Edwin Horn Jones. 

Frederick M. Kirby. 

*Ralph Dupuy Lacoe. 

Woodward Leavenworth. 

*Woodward Leavenworth, Jr. 

George Cahoon Lewis. 

Edward Sterling Loop. 

Charles Noyes Ikoveland. 

Miss Elizabeth Shepard Loveland. 

*William Loveland. 

*Winiam Ross Maffet. 

Col. John Miner Carey Marble. 

Andrew Hamilton McChntock. 

*Mrs. Augusta (Cist) McClintock. 

Mrs. EHza Ross (Atherton) Miner. 

*Hon. Charles Abbott Miner. 

Charles Howard Miner, M. D. 



N. 



26 



ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP. 



Sidney Roby Miner. 

♦Lawrence Myers. 

Abram Nesbitt. 

Abram Goodwin Nesbitt. 

Frederick Nesbitt. 

*George Francis Nesbitt. 

♦Mrs. Sara Myers (Goodwin) Nesbitt. 

Daniel Edwards Newell. 

Mrs. Esther (Shoemaker) Norris. 

William T. Payne. 

*Rev. Nathan Grier Parke, D. D. 

♦Charles Parrish. 

Mrs. Mary (Conynghara) Parrish. 

Mrs. Ella (Reets) Parrish. 

♦Calvin Parsons. 

Maj. Oliver Alphonsa Parsons. 

Joseph Emmet Patterson. 

Francis Alexander Phelps. 

♦John Case Phelps. 

Mrs. Martha (Bennett) Phelps. 

William John Raeder. 

♦John Reichard, Jr. 

Dorrance Reynolds. 

Miss Edith Lindsley Reynolds. 

♦Col. George Murray Reynolds. 

Schuyler Lee Reynolds. 

♦Sheldon Reynolds. 

William Reynolds Ricketts. 

♦Ferdinand Vandevere Rockafellow. 

Mrs. Charlotte M. (Rose) Ryman. 

♦William Penn Ryman. 

Miss Rosalys Ryman. 

Theodore F. Ryman. 

Miss Elizabeth Montgomery Sharpe. 



Miss Mary A. Sharpe. 

♦Richard Sharpe, Sr. 

Richard Sharpe, Jr. 

♦Mrs. Sally (Patterson) Sharpe. 

Miss Sallie Sharpe. 

Charles Jones Shoemaker. 

Mrs. Cornelia W.(Scranton) Shoemaker. 

Miss Jane A. Shoemaker. 

♦Hon. Lazarus Denison Shoemaker. 

Levi Ives Shoemaker, M. D. 

Mrs. Sarah (Nesbitt) Smythe. 

Miss Esther Shoemaker Stearns. 

Mrs. Sarah Covell (Maffet) Stevens. 

Thomas Kirkbride Slurdevant. 

♦John Henry Swoyer. 

Mrs. Emily (Hollenback) Taylor. 

Lewis Harlow Taylor, M. D. 

Percy Rutter Thomas. 

Miss Sallie B. Thomas. 

Miss Rosa Troxell. 

Mrs. Martha (Sharpe) Tucker. 

John A. Turner. 

♦Stephen Buckingham Vaughn. 

Raymond Lynde Wadhams, M. D. 

Edward Welles, Sr. 

Edward Welles, Jr. 

George Woodward, M. D. 

Christopher Wren. 

♦Mrs. Emily L. (Cist) Wright. 

♦Harrison Wright, M. A., Ph. D. 

Harrison Wright, 3d. 

George Riddle Wright. 

♦Hon. Jacob Ridgway Wright. 

Miss Margaret M. (Myers) Yeager. 



♦Deceased. 



Total Life Members 141 

Subscriptions due Jan. i, 1908 . 9 

— 150 



EXTRACT FROM BY-LAWS. 

♦"The payment of one hundred dollars at one time by a member not in arrears, 
shall constitute him a life member, with an exemption from all future payments. 

"All moneys received on account of life memberships, shall be securely invested 
by the Trustees in the name of the Society, and shall form a fund to be called 'The 
Life Membership Fund,' the interest only of which shall be available for the uses 
of the Society. 

♦♦"Any person contributing to the Society at one time a fund of one thousand 
dollars or more shall be placed on the list of Life Members with the title of 
'Benefactor.' The Life Membership list shall be published annually." 



The life member is entitled to all the publications and privileges of the Society, 
free, and by the payment of his fee establishes a permanent memorial of his name 
which never expires, but always bears interest for the benefit of the Society. His 
is therefore always a living membership. 



ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP, 



27 



ANNUAL MEMBERS. 



William Murray Alexander. 

Felix Ansart. 

Mrs. Mary S. (Butler) Ayres. 

*Robert 13auer. 

*Gustav Adolph Bauer. 

Col. Eugene Bcauhamai.s Beaumont, 

Dr. Harry M. Beck. [U. S. A. 

Paul Bedford. 

Reuben Nelson Bennett. 

Stephen B. Bennett. 

Ziba Piatt Bennett. 

Miss Ella Bowman. 

John Cloyes Bridgman. 

Elmer Ellsworth Buckman. 

Ernest Ustick Buckman, M. D. 

J. Arthur BuUard. M. D. 

E. L. Bullock. 

Pierce Butler. 

Edmund Nelson Carpenter. 

Walter Samuel Carpenter. 

Benjamin Harold Carpenter. 

Hon. Sterling Ross Catlin. 

RoUin S. Chamberlin. 

Frederick M. Chase. 

Miss Sara Wood Crary. 

George Frederick Coddington. 

Herbert Conyngham. 

John Nesbit Conyngham. 

Mrs. Bertha (Wright) Conyngham. 

Joseph Davis Coons. 

Frederick Corss, M. D. 

Johnson R. Coolbaugh. 

James Martin Coughlin. 

Mrs. Louise (Kidder) Davis. 

Arthur D. Dean. 

William Henry Dean. 

Harold D. Deemer. 

Chester B. Derr. 

Benjamin Dorrance. 

Miss Anne Dorrance. 

Gen. Charles Bowman Dougherty. 

Francis Douglas. 

Mrs. Ella (Kicking) Emory. 

* William Glassel Eno. 

Barnet Miller Espy. 

Mrs. Augusta (Dorrance) Farnham. 

George H. Flanagan. 

Alexander G. Fell, M. D. 

Daniel Ackley Fell, Jr. 

Hon. George Steele Ferris. 

James H. Fisher. 

♦Deceased. 



Mrs. Mary Jane (Hoagland) Foster. 

Ferdinand .S. Fowler. 

Eugene C. Frank. 

Henry Amzi Fuller. 

Rev. Edw.ird Grier Fullerton, Ph. D. 

Mrs. Annette (Jenkins) Gorman. 

Thomas Graeme. 

William James Hancock. 

Mrs. Mary (Richardson) Hand. 

Maj. John Slosson Harding. 

Charles D. S. Harrower. 

Laning Harvey. 

Miss Mary Harvey. 

Lord Butler Hillard. 

Tuthill Reynolds Hillard. 

Mrs. Josephine (Wright) Hillman. 

John Justin Hines. 

S. Alexander Hodge. 

F. Lee Hollister. 

*Miss Elizabeth Waller Horton. 

John T. Howell, M. D. 

Miss Augusta Hoyt. 

Edward Everett Hoyt. 

Miss Anna Mercer Hunt. 

Charles Parrish Hunt. 

Lea Hunt. 

Edmund Hurlburt. 

Miss Emma J. Jenkins. 

Frederick Charles Johnson, M. D. 

Mrs. Grace (Derr. Johnson. 

Rev. Henry Lawrence Jones, S. T. D. 

Miss Ernestine Martin Kaehlin. 

Mrs. Amelia Maria (Carter) Kennedy. 

*Albert H. Kipp. 

Frederick C. Kirkendall. 

Ira M. Kirkendall. 

Charles P. Knapp, M. D. 

George Brubaker Kulp. 

James F. Labagh. 

John Laning. 

William Arthur Lathrop. 

Charles Law. 

Elmer H. Lawall. 

Charles W. Laycock. 

George W. Leach, Sr. 

George W. Leach, Jr. 

Edwm T. Long. 

Charles W. Lee. 

Charles Jonas Long. 

Mrs. Dora (Rosenbaum) Long. 

George Loveland. 



28 



ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP. 



Samuel H. Lynch. 

Mrs, Katherine (Searle) McCartney. 

Miss Martha A. Maffett. 

William Swan McLean. 

Alvin Markle. 

Thomas R. Martin. 

Granville T. Matlack, M. D. 

Mrs. Helen (Reynolds) Miller. 

Col. Asher Miner. 

Benjamin Franklin Morgan. 

Charles E. Morgan. 

Thomas Milnor Morris. 

Eugene Worth Mulligan. 

Charles Francis Murray. 

Theodore L. Newell. 

Robert VanAlstine Norris. 

Mrs. Anna (Miner) Oliver. 

Miss Frances J. Overton. 

Miss Priscilla Lee Paine. 

Hon. Henry W. Palmer. 

Frank Pardee. 

Israel Piatt Pardee. 

Frank Ellsworth Parkhurst. 

William H. Peck. 

Jacob S. Pettebone. 

Mrs. Frances (Overfield) Piatt. 

Miss Myra Poland. 

Frank Puckey. 

John W. Raeder. 

William Lafayette Raeder. 

Mrs. Maud (Baldwin) Raub. 

Col. George Nicholas Reichard. 

^■Mrs. Anna B. (Dorrance) Reynolds. 

Benjamin Reynolds. 

John Butler Reynolds. 

*Mrs. Stella (Dorrance) Reynolds. 

Hon. Charles Edmund Rice. 

Mrs. Elizabeth (Reynolds) Ricketts. 

Col. Robert Bruce Ricketts. 

Mrs. Stella M. (Shoemaker) Ricketts. 

Robert Patterson Robinson. 

J. Irving Roe, M. D. 

Miss Elizabeth H. Rockwell. 

Arthello Ross Root. 

Leslie S. Ryman. 

John Edward Sayre. 

Rev. Marcus Salzman. 



Christian H. Scharer. 

Charles William Spayd, M. D. 

Rev. Levi L. Sprague, D. D. 

Capt. Cyrus .Straw. 

Seligman J. Strauss. 

Addison A. Sterling. 

Walter S. Stewart, M. D. 

John F. Shea. 

Harry Clayton Shepherd. 

William Carver Shepherd. 

Mrs. Lydia (Atherton) Stites. 

Harry B. Schooley. 

Archie Carver Shoemaker, M. D. 

George Shoemaker. 

William Mercer Shoemaker. 

Hon. William J. Scott. 

Archibald D. W. Smith. 

J. Bennett Smith. 

Dr. Louise M. Stoeckel-Lundquist. 

Frank Sturdevant Stone. 

^Theodore Strong. 

Edward Warren Sturdevant. 

Miss Ellen Urquhart Sturdevant. 

William Henry Sturdevant. 

Walter Coray Sutherland. 

William John Trembath. 

John A. Timpson. 

William S. Tompkins. 

Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth (Miner) Thomas. 

Alexander PI. Von Horn. 

Rev. F. von Krug, D. D. 

Burton Voorhis. 

Mrs. Esther Taylor Wadhams. 

Mrs. F. D. L. Wadhams. 

Moses Waller Wadhams. 

Ralph H. Wadhams. 

Levi Ellmaker Waller. 

Samuel D. Warriner. 

William Gwynn Weaver, M. D. 

Hon. Frank W. Wheaton. 

Henry Hunter Welles, Jr. 

Mrs. Stella H. Welles. 

Theodore L. Welles. 

Joshua Lewis Welter. 

William D. White. 

John Butler Woodward. 

Frederick E. Zerby. 



♦Deceased. 



Members, 195 
Life, . . 141 

— 336 



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the Buried Valley of Wyoming (Map), by Mr. William 
Griffith ; *Memorial Ralph Dupuy Lacoe, Sketch of Ralph Dupuy 
Lacoe, by Rev. H. E. Hayden ; *Mr. Lacoe's Relation to Science, 
by Mr. David White; Centennial of Luzerne County, 1786- 1886; 
Chevalier De La Luzerne, by Hon. E- L. Dana, annotated by 
Rev. H. E. Hayden; The House of Lancaster to the Rescue, by 
W. H. Egle, M. D. ; The Progress of Printing in Luzerne 
County, by W. P. Miner, Esq.; *Col. Isaac Barre, by S. R. 
Miner, Esq. ; Letter from George Washington to Zebulon Butler, 
with Facsimile; *Early Settlement of Dallas Township, Pa., by 
W. P. Ryman, Esq. Illustrations ; Original Draught of the Pub- 
lic Commons and the Public Square of Wilkes-Barre, Rev. H. 
E. Hayden; Records of the First Presbyterian Church, Wilkes- 
Barre, 1803-1829, Rev. H. E. Hayden; A Pioneer Settler of Sus- 

* Papers privately printed. 



32 PUBLICATIONS. 

quehanna Co. (1819), Rev. H. E. Hayden; Obituaries of Mem- 
bers, *Dr. William Henry Egle, M. D., by Rev. H. E. Hayden; 
George Francis Nesbitt, George Washington Shonk, by Wesley 
E. Woodruff, James Henry Bowden ; Officers and Members, 
1901 ; Portraits presented to the Society since 1899 ; Contribu- 
tors and Exchanges. Index. 8vo. pp. 346. Wilkes-Barre, 1902. 
Plates. $5.00. 

— Vol. Vn. Proceedings, 1901 ; Reports of officers ; *Kansas Gla ■ 
ciation and its effects on the River System of Northern Penn'a, 
Prof. E. H. Williams, Jr.; Anthracite Coal in Wyoming Valley; 
"Cist vs. Fell," or the Domestic Use of Anthracite Coal, W. P. 
Miner; Reminiscences of Early Wilkes-Barre, S. H. Lynch; 
Annual Address of the President, Hon. S. Woodward; Educa- 
tional Value of the Society, Rev. Dr. H. L. Jones; Echoes of 
the Massacre of Wyoming, David Washburn's account, Elisha 
Harding's account, Rev. H. E. Hayden; Orderly Book of Col. 
Zebulon Butler, August-October, 1778, Rev. H. E. Hayden; 
Correspondence of Col. Zebulon Butler, Wyoming, June-Decem- 
ber, 1778, Rev. H. E. Hayden; Early History of Putnam Town- 
ship, P. M. Osterhout; Original Records of Putnam Township, 
S. Judson Stark; Marriage and Death Record of Rev. John 
Miller, Abington, Pa., 1802-1856, A. D. Dean; Records of Mar- 
riages and Deaths, Wyoming, 1797-1810, Rev. H. E. Hayden; 
Obituaries of Deceased Members, Rev. H. E. Hayden; Officers 
and Members, 1902. Contributions. Publications. Index, pp. 
260. Plates. 1902. $3.00. 

— Vol. VIII. Proceedings, 1902; Reports of Officers; *The Atlan- 
tosaur and Titanotherium Beds of Wyoming, Prof. F. B. Peck, 
Ph. D. ; *The Buried Valley of Wyoming, Frederic Corss, M. 
D. ; *A Day at Asylum, Pa., Rev. Dr. Craft ; The "Gravel Creek" 
Indian Stone, Rev. H. E. Hayden; *The Stone Age, Remains of 
the Stone Age in the Wyoming Valley and along the Susque- 
hanna River, Christopher Wren; Jesse Fell's Experimental 
Grate, Testimony of an Eye Witness, J. M. C. Marble; *Count 
Zinzendorf and the Moravian and Indian Occupancy of the 
Wyoming Valley, 1742-1763, F. C. Johnson, M. D; *The Rem- 
iniscences of David Hayfield Conyngham, 1750-1834, Rev. H. E- 

* Papers privately printed. 



PUBLICATIONS. 33 

Hayden; Wyoming Valley Marriages, 1850-1890, Rev. H. E. 
Welles, D. D. ; Obituaries of Deceased Members, Rev. H. E. 
Hayden; Officers and Members, 1903-1904. Contributions. Pub- 
lications. Index, pp. 330. 1904. Plates. $5.00. 
— Vol. IX. Proceedings ; Reports of Officers ; Geology and Pale- 
ontology of Patagonia, Prof. William Berryman Scott, Ph. D. ; 
*Pioneer Physicians of Wyoming Valley, 1771-1825, Frederick 
C. Johnson, M. D. ; Early Smoking Pipes of the North American 
Indians, Alfred F. Berlin; *Aboriginal Pottery of the Wyom- 
ing Valley — Susquehanna River Region, Penn'a, Christopher 
Wren; Roman Catholic Indian Relics in the Society Collec- 
tions, Charles F. Hill ; The Early Bibliography of Pennsylvania, 
Hon. Sam'l W. Pennypacker; The Expedition of Col. Thomas 
Hartley against the Indians in 1778, Rev. David Craft; The 
Zebulon Butler Tablet, and the Zebulon Butler Ethnological 
Fund, Rev. H. E. Hayden ; Obituaries of Deceased Members, 
Rev. H. E- Hayden ; Officers and Members, 1905. Contributions. 
Publications. Index, pp. 249. 1905. Plates. $3.00. 

PAMPHLET TITLES. 

A Circular of Inquiry from the Society respecting the old Wilkes- 
Barre Academy. Prepared by Harrison Wright, Ph. D. 
Wilkes-Barre, 1883. 8vo., pp. 19. $0.25. 

The Old Academy. Interesting Sketch of its forty-six trustees. 
Harrison Wright, Ph. D. Broadside. 1883. $0.25. 

Circular on Life Membership. 1884. 4to., p. i. 

Charter, By-Laws and List of Members of the Society, Wilkes- 
Barre, 1885. 8vo., pp. 24. $0.25. 

Circular of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Erection of 
Luzerne County. 

Coal, its Antiquity. Discovery and early development in the Wyo- 
ming Valley. A paper read before the Society, June 27, 1890, by 
Geo. B. Kulp, Historiographer of the Society, Wilkes-Barre, 
1890. Seal. 8vo., pp. 2"]. $0.50. 

Notes on the Tornado of Aug. 19, 1890, in Luzerne and Columbia 
counties. A paper read before the Society Dec. 12, 1890, by 
Prof. Thomas Santee, Principal of the Central High School. 
Seal. 8vo., pp. 51. Map. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1891. $1.00. 
• Papers privately printed. 



34 PUBLICATIONS. 

In Its New Home. The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society 
takes formal possession of its new quarters. Address of Hon. 
Stanley Woodward. Nov. 21. 1893. 8vo., pp. 4. 

The Massacre of Wyoming. The Acts of Congress for the defense 
of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1776-1778; with the 
Petitions of the Sufferers by the Massacre of July 3, 1778, for 
Congressional aid. With an introductory chapter by Rev. 
Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A., Corresponding Secretary Wyom- 
ing Historical and Geological Society. Seal. 8vo., frontispiece, 
pp. 119. Printed for the Society. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1895. 
$1.50. 

Bibliography of the Wyoming Plistorical and Geological Society. 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1896. 8vo., pp. 4. 

Pedigree Building. Dr. William H. Egle. 1896. pp. 4. 

The Yankee and the Pennamite in the Wyoming Valley. Plon. 
Stanley Woodward. 1896. pp. 4. 

The Frontier Forts within the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. A 
report of the Commission appointed by the State to mark the 
Forts erected against the Indians prior to 1783, by Sheldon 
Reynolds, M. A., a Member of the Commission, and President 
of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. With a 
brief Memoir of the author, by Andrew H. McClintock, M. A. 
Read before the Society December, 1894, and reprinted from 
The State Report, 1896. Seal. Wilkes-Barre, Penn'a, 1896. 8vo., 
pp. 48. Illustrations. $1.00. 

The Frontier Forts within the North and West Branches of the 
Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania. A Report of the Commis- 
sion appointed by the State to mark the Frontier Forts erected 
against the Indians prior to 1783, by Captain John M. Buckalew, 
a Member of the Commission, and Corresponding Member of 
the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Read before 
the Society October 4, 1895, and reprinted from the State Re- 
port, 1896. Seal. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1896. 8vo., pp. 70. Ilus- 
trations. $1.00. 

The Military Hospitals at Bethlehem and Lititz, Penn'a, during the 
Revolutionary War, by John Woolf Jordan. A paper read be- 
fore the Society, April 10, 1896. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1896. Svc, 
pp. 23. $1.00. 



PUBLICATIONS. 35 

The Palatines ; or, German Immigration to New York and Pennsyl- 
vania. A paper read before the Society by Rev. Sanford H. 
Cobb of Albany, N. Y. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1897. 8vo., pp. 
30. $0.50. 

John and Sebastian Cabot. A Four Hundredth Anniversary Me- 
morial of the Discovery of America, by Harry Hakes, M. D. 
Read before the Society June 24, 1897. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
1897. 8vo., pp. 14. $0.40. 

Address by Mrs. John Case Phelps, on the occasion of the erection 
of a monument at Laurel Run, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 
September 12, 1896, to mark the spot where Capt. Joseph Davis, 
and Lieutenant William Jones of the Pennsylvania Line were 
slain by the Indians, April 23, 1779; with the *Sketch of these 
two officers by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A. Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., 1897. 8vo., pp. 41. $1.00. 

The German Leaven in the Pennsylvania Loaf. Read before the 
Society May 21, 1897, by H. M. M. Richards. 8vo., pp. 27. 
Wilkes-Barre, 1897. $0.50. 

A Honduras Trip, Hon, J. Ridgway Wright, 1898. pp. 10. 

Charter, By-Laws and Officers, 1858-1899; Members, Papers, 1858- 
1899; Contributors, &c., 8vo., pp. :i6. Wilkes-Barre, 1899. $0.25. 

History, Charter, By-Laws and List of Officers, Members, etc., with 
Bibliography of the Society, etc., etc. Svo. pp. — Wilkes-Barre, 
1907. $0.25. 

* Papers privately printed. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS 

IN THH 

Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, 1907. 



Subject. Artist. Donor. 

1. Thomas Ferrikr Atherton, Carpenter T. H. Atherton. 

Original Member, 1858. Vice President, 1869. Died 1871. 

2. William Hibbard Alexander, Carpenter . . Miss E. I. Alexander. 

Original Member, 1858. Died 1864. Early Wyoming Surveyor. 

3. Miss Emily Isabella Alexander, Carpenter . . Miss C. M. Alexander. 

Member, 1881. Life Member, 1889. Died 1897. 

4. Colonel Isaac Barre, 1726-1802, {Engraving) . . . Harrison Wright. 

Adjutant General British Army under Wolfe, 1759, at Quebec. Member 
Parliament. Great Friend of America. Wilkes-Barrfi was named for 
him and Col. John Wilkes, q. v. Died 1802. 

5. General Lord Butler, 1761-1824 {Lithograph). 

Son of Col. Zebulon Butler. Deputy Quarter Master General at Wyoming, 
1778, aged 17. Brigadier General, 1799. First Sheriff Luzerne county, 
1787. Member Supreme Executive Council of Penn'a, 1789. First Post 
Master Wilkes-Barr€, 1794-1802, etc. "A Survivor of the Massacre." 

6. Mrs. Lord Butler (Polly Pierce) (Lithograph). . Mrs. S.Woodward. 

1763-1834. Grand daughter of Maj. Ezekiel Pierce, original settler of 
Wyoming, 1762. 

7. Captain Nathan Beach, 1763-1845 Anonymous . Mrs. W. M. Alexander. 

One of the Forty settlers, 1769. Revolutionary soldier. "Survivor of the 
Massacre, 1778." Founder of Beach Haven. Member Pennsylvania 
Legislature, 1807-1808. Died 1845. 

8. Thomas Broderick, {Photograph). 

Member, 1860-1886. Died 1886. Fourth Mayor of Wilkes- Barr6, 1880. 

9. Lieut. Elisha Blackman, 1760-1S45, Carpenter E.H.Jones. 

Came to Wyoming 1772. Lieutenant, Capt. W. H. Smith's Co. "Survivor 
of the Massacre, 1778." Died 1845. 

10. Lieut. Elisha Blackman Leach H. B. Plumb. 

11. Hon. John Nesbitt Conyngham, LL. D., . .Leach Mrs. Chas. Parrish. 

Original Member, 1858. Vice President, 1866, 1867. President, 1869. 
President Judge Luzerne county, 1851-1870. Died r87i. 

12. Lt. Col. John Butler Conyngham U.S. A., . i^<rac/j Mrs. Chas. Parrish. 

A Founder of the Society, 1S58. Treasurer, 1858-1861. Lt. Col. 52d Pa. 
Vols., 1861-1865. Lt. Col. U. S. A., 1867-1871. Died 1871. 

13. Hon. Eckley Brinton Coxh, Carpenter . . . Alexander B. Coxe. 

Member 1866. Life Member, 1889. Vice President, 1S84-1895. Died 1895. 



38 LIST OF PORTRAITS. 

14. Benjamin G. Carpenter, Carpenter . Spring Brook Water Co. 

President Spring Brook Water Co. Died 1889. 

15. Martin Coryell MacLean Family. 

Corresponding Secretary, 1866-1868, 1870-1875. Treasurer, 1870-1874. 
President, i868. Died 1886. 

16. Isaac Abel Chapman, Gustin Mrs. W. H. Dean. 

Early Wyoming Surveyor. First Historian of Wyoming. Died 1822. 

17. Jacob Cist, 1782-1825, Carpenter . . . Mrs. J. W. Hillman. 

Scientist. Fifth Post Master of Wilkes-Barrfe, 1808-1825. Treasurer 
Luzerne county, 1S16. 

18. Capt. James Plater Dennis, {Photograph). 

Nephew of Judge Jesse Fell. The Founder of this Society, who called the 
first meeting February 11, 1858. Member, 1858-1887. First Chairman, 
1858. Vice President, 1873-1875. Librarian, 1877-1881. Died 1887. 

19. Welding Fell Dennis, M. D., (Photograph). 

1818-1876. Librarian, 1858, 1859, 1862, 1863. Corresponding Secretary, 
1860-1862. President, 1864, 1865. Died 1876. 

20. General Edmund Lovell Dana, Carpenter Charles E. Dana. 

1817-1889. Original Member, 1858. First President, 1858-1860, 1884-1888. 
Life Member, 1889. Captain Wyoming Artillerists Mexican War, 1846- 
1848. Colonel 143d Reg't Penn'a Vols., 1862-1865, Brigadier General, 
1865. Judge Luzerne county, 1867-1877. Died 1889. 

21. Rev. Davis DiMOCK, 1776-1858 (Photograph). 

Pastor of the Baptist Church, Wyoming District, 1803-1858. Associate 
Judge, 1812-1838. Died 1858. 

22. Colonel Charles Dorrance, Anonymous Family. 

Original Member, 1858. Vice President, 1866, 1867, 1881. Died 1892. 

23- J. Vaugh AN Darling, Anonymous . . . A. H. McClintock. 

Member 1881-1892. Died 1892. 

24. Henry H. Derr, Carpenter A. F. Derr. 

Member, 1870-1889. Life Member, 1889. Died 1889. 

35. Thompson Derr Carpenter ........ A. F. Derr. 

Member, 1866-1885. Died 1885. 

26. Hon. Henry Mills Fuller, (Photograph). 

1820-1860. Member U. S. Congress, Luzerne District, 1851-1853-1855-1857. 

27. Benjamin Franklin, LL. D., Peale. 

Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

28. Benjamin Franklin, LL. D., (Silhouette), 

29. Col. John Franklin, 1749-1831, (Photograph). 

Captain 24th Conn. Regiment, 1778. Marched his Company to Wyoming 
July 3, 1778, but was too late to participate in the battle. Served in the 
Sullivan Campaign, 1779. Justice, 1778-1779. Colonel. High Sherifi 
Luzerne county, 1792. Member Connecticut Assembly, 1781, and Penn- 
sylvania Assembly, 1795-1805. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS. 39 

30. Andrew Jackson Griffith Anonymous . . . Wm. Griffith. 

Donor of the A. J. Griffith Ethnological Collection, 1896. Died 1889. 

31. Lieutenant Obadiah Gore, Carpenter Miss Jane Gore. 

1744-1821. "Survivor of the Massacre, 1778." Lieutenant Continental 
Army, 1775-1783. Judge of Luzerne county, 1787-1809. Member Legis- 
lature Conn, and Penn'a. Died 1821. 

32. Hon. Henry Martvn HovT, LL. D., Anonymous . . . Hon. H. M. Hoyt. 

A Founder of the Society, 1858. Original Member, 1858-1892. Captain 
Wyoming Light Dragoons, 1858. Colonel 52d Reg. Pa. Vols., 1861- 
1865. Brigadier General, 1865. Judge Luzerne county, 1867. 
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1879-1883. Author. Died 1892. 

33. CoL. Matthias HOLLENBACK, Carpenter . . . . J. W. Hollenback. 

1753-1829. Wyoming, 1770. "A survivor of the Massacre, 1778." Lieut. 
124th Conn. Reg't, 1775-1778. Judge Luzerne county, 1787. First 
Treasurer Luzerne county. Lt. Colonel First Batt. Luzerne county 
Militia, 1787-1793. Died 1829. 

34. George M. Hollenback, Carpenter Edward Welles. 

1791-1866. Original Member, 1858-1866. VicePresident, 1860-1861. Treas- 
urer Luzerne County Bible Society, 1819-1866. Died 1866. 

35. John Welles Hollenback, Sahbrenner Family. 

Member since 1868. Vice President, 1876-1878. President, 1879-1880. 
" Benefactor,'' 1903. 

36. Rev. Thomas Poage Hunt, Carpenter Miss S. C. Hunt. 

1794-1876. Original Member, 1858. " Father Hunt," clergyman Presby- 
terian Church, Luzerne county, 1840-1876. Died 1876. 

37. Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, {Photograph) . . . W. E. Woodruff. 

Secretary U. S. Treasury, 1789-1795. Died 1804. 

38. Francis William Hunt, Anonymous C. P. Hunt. 

Wilkes-Barre Merchant. Died 1873. 

39. Thaddeus S. Hillard, (Photograph) . . Mrs. T. S. Hillard. 

Merchant. Chief Fire Department Wilkes-Barrg. Died 1893. 

40. Charles Farmer Ingham, M. D., Stearns Family. 

1810-1890. Original Member, 1858-1890. Life Member, 1882. Librarian, 
i860, 1861, 1864-1867, 1869-1873. Curator, 1884-1890. Trustee, 1884-1889. 
Vice President, 1884-1885. President, 1862, 1863, 1882, 1883. Eminent 
Civil Engineer. Assisted in building Fort Sumter, S. C. Built Wilkes- 
Barrg Water Works, i860 ; Wilkes-Barr6 Sewer System, etc. Died 1890. 

41. Hon. Steuben Jenkins Ratight Family. 

1819-1890. Historian and Antiquarian. Died 1890. 

42. Hon. William Jessup, 1797-1868 (Lithograph). 

Honorary Member, 1859. President Judge Luzerne District, 1838-1841, 
1849-1851, and Susquehanna District, 1842-1848. Died 1868. 

43. John Michael Kienzle, Dubois. 

High Constable of Wilkes-Barrg, 1806-1846, and Sexton of the " Old Ship 
Zion," the first church in Wilkes-Barr6. Died 1846. 



40 LIST OF PORTRAITS. 

44. Chevalier de La Luzerne, LL. D., 1741-1791. 

Minister of France to the United States, 1779-1783- Luzerne county was 
named for him 1786. Died 1791. 

45. Ralph Dupuy Lacok, Carpenter Family. 

Member, 1882. Trustee, 1884-1889. Curator of Paleontology, 1884-1901. 
Donor of the Lacoe Collection of Paleozoolog-y. Died 1901. 

46. Rev. Wm. Wallace Loomis Anonymous W. D. Loomis. 

1815-1894. Original Member, 1858-1S73. Vice President, 1861. Third 
Mayor of Wilkes-Barrfi. Died 1894. 

47. Augustus C. Laning, Carpenter Family. 

Original Member, 1858-1873. Vice President, 1861. Died 1875. 

48. Hon. Garrick Mallerv, LL. D., {Lithograph). 

1784-1860. Honorary Member, 1858. Trustee Wilkes- Barr6 Academy, 1811- 
1832. Member Pennsylvania Assembly, 1826-1829, from Luzerne county. 
President Judge Third District, 1831-1836. 

49. VOLNEV Lee Maxwell, {Photograph). 

1804-1873. Original Member, 1858-1873. Vice President, 1862, 1863, 1865. 
President, 1866, 1867. Died 1873. 

50. Rbv. Nicholas Murray, D. D {Lithograph). 

1802-1861. Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barrg. 1829-1833. 
Well known under the nemne de plume of " Kirwan." Died 1861. 

51. Andrew Todd McClintock, LL. D., .... Carpenter .... A. H. McClintock. 

Original Member, 1858. Vice President, i860, 1864, 1865, 1869-1875. 
President, 1876, 1889-1891. Died 1891. 



52- 



Edward Rodman Mayer, M. D Carpenter .... Mrs. E. R. Mayer. 

Original Member, 1858-1892. Vice President, 1861, 1879-1883. Died 1892. 



53. Hon. Charles Abbott Miner, Carpenter Family. 

Original Member, 1858-1903. Vice President, 1877-1880. President, 1881. 
Trustee, 1887-1903. Member Legislature of Pennsylvania, 1874-1880. 
Died 1903. 

54. Joseph A. Murphy, M. D., Carpenter Family. 

Member 1870-1895. Vice President, 1879-1881. Died 1895. 

55. Charles Morgan, Anonymous Family. 

Original Member, 1858-1901. Vice President, 1862, 1863. Died 1901. 

56. Isaac Smith Osterhout, Carpenter . Spring Brook Water Co. 

1806-1882. Original Member, 1858. Founder of the Osterhout Free Library, 
and " Benefactor" of this Society. Died 1882. (See Nos. 90 and 91). 



57. Governor William Penn 

Founder of Pennsylvania 1682. 

58. Captain Calvin Parsons, Anonymous Family. 

Original Member, 1858-1889. Vice President, 1870-1876, 1882-1894. Presi- 
dent, 1877, 1878, 1892, 1893. Life Member, 1889. Died 1900. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS. 4I 

39. Charles Parrish, Carpenter C. P. Hunt. 

Original Member, 1858-1896. Life Member, 1889. Died 1896. Founder of 
Lehigh and Wilkes-Barr6 Coal Co., etc., etc. 

60. Rev. George Peck, D. D . Carpenter W. H. Peck. 

Original Member, 1858. Historian of Wyoming. Presiding Elder Wyom- 
ing District M. E. Church, 1827-1829, 1854, 1855, 1862-1865, 1873-1876. 
Author. Died 1876. 

61. Lewis Compton Paine Carpenter Family. 

Member, 18S1-1890. Vice President, 1882, 1883. Trustee Osterhout Free 
Library, etc. Died 1890. 

62. Payne Pettebone, Carpenter Family. 

Original Member, 1858-1888. Vice President, 1862-1874. President, 1875. 
Died 1888. 

63. Rev. Nathan Grier Parke, D. D Carpenter Family. 

1820-1903. Member, 1897. Life Member, 1898. Founder Presbyterian 
Church, Pittston. Died 1903. 

64. General William Ross, 1761-1842, (Photograph). 

Was with Col. Zebulon Butler, Exeter, Pa., July 2, 1778, aged 17. In Forty 
Fort, July 3, 1778. "ASurvivor of the Massacre." Private Capt. John 
Franklin's Co., 17S0. Captain, 1788-1790. Severely wounded, 1788, 
rescuing Col. Timothy Pickering. Presented with a sword by the 
Council of Penn'a. Justice of the Peace, 1790-1810. State Senator, 
i8i2. Brigadier General of Militia, 1800-1814. Post Master of Wilkes- 
Barr6, Pa., 1832-1835. Died 1842. 

65. Gen. William Sterling Ross, Leach Hon. C. A. Miner. 

1802-1868. Original Member, 1858. Life Member, 1859. President, 1861. 
"Benefactor." Died 1868. 

66. Sheldon Reynolds Frank . . . Mrs. Sheldon Reynolds. 

Member, 1874-1889. Life Member, 1889. Treasurer, 1880-1882. Trustee, 
1884-1886. Corresponding Secretary, 1884-1894. Curator of Archae- 
ology, 1884-1895. Librarian, 1886. President, 1894. Original Trustee 
Osterhout Free Library. Died 1895. 

67. David R. Randall, Carpenter Family. 

Member 1859-1873. Vice President, 1862, 1863, Died 1875. 

68. William Penn Ryman, Carpenter Family. 

Member, 1881-1897. Life Member, 1897. Died 1899. 

69. Rt. Rev. N. S. Rulison, D. D. (Photograph). 

Honorary Member, 1897. Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, Protestant 
Episcopal Church. Died 1897. 

70. General John Sullivan, U. S. A Anonymous. . . . Lawrence Myers. 

Major General Continental Army, commanding the expedition against the 
Indians, 1779, to avenge the Massacre of Wyoming. Died 1795. 

71. Richard Sharpe, Sr., Anonymous Family. 

1813-1895. Member, 1883. Life Member, 1889. Died 1895. 



42 LIST OF PORTRAITS. 

72. Hon. L. Denison Shoemaker, Carpenter Family. 

1819-1893. Member, 1889. Life Member, 1889. Vice President, 1890-1893. 
Member of the 42d and 43d U. S. Congress. Died 1893. 

73. Col. Samuel H. Sturdevant, U. S. A., . . . . Carpenter Family. 

Member, 1896-1898. Capt. Pa.Vols., U. S. A., 1861. Lieut. Colonel, U. S. A., 
1862-1863, Sixth Army Corps. Colonel and Chief Commissary of the 
Army of Georgia, U. S. A., 1864-1865. Died 1898. 

74. Mrs. John Paul Schott, Anonymous . Miss Mary W. Schott. 

" Naomi Sill," daughter of Jabez Sill, Wyoming, 1773. Wife of Captain 
John Paul Schott, of the Penn'a Line Continental Army, 1776-1783, at 
Wyoming. A pioneer Wyoming woman. Her sister was the wife of 
Colonel Nathan Denison. Mrs. Schott was also a "Survivor of the 
Massacre of 1778." Born 1754, she died 1829. 

75. Captain L. Denison Stearns, U. S. V., ... Carpenter I. A. Stearns. 

Died from disease contracted in the war with Spain, 1898. Member, 1896-1898. 

76. Col. William Leete Stone, 1792-1844, . . . .(Engraving). 

Author of " Poetry and History of Wyoming." Died 1844. 

77. Douglas Smith, (Photograph). 

Member, 1866. Treasurer, 1875-1879. Corr. Secretary, 1880. Died 1904. 

78. Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, S. T. D (Engraving). 

1840. Second Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barrfe, 1790-1792. 
Died 1840. 

79. Stephen B. Vaughan Carpenter Family. 

Member, 1S82. Life Member, 1905. Died 1905. 

80. Hon. George W. Woodward, Anonymous . . Stanley Woodward. 

1809-1875. Honourary Member, 1873-1875. President Judge 4th Judicial 
District Penn'a, 1841. Judge Supreme Court Penn'a, 1852-1864. Chief 
Justice, 1865-1868. Member 40th and 41st U. S. Congress. Died 1875. 
Was father of Judge Stanley Woodward. 

81. Hon. Stanley Woodward, Anonymous. . . . Mrs. Woodward. 

A Founder of the Society. Member, 1858-1906. President, 1895-1906. 
Judge Luzerne county, Penn'a, 1879-1899. Died 1906. 

82. Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, Carpenter . Spring Brook Water Co. 

1808-1881. Original Member, 1858. Vice President, i860, 1865-1867, 1869. 
President, 1870-1872. Member 37th and 46th U. S. Congress, eleven 
years. Died 1881. 

83. Harrison Wright, M. A., Ph. D., Carpenter Family. 

Member, 1872-1885. Life Member. Recording Secretarj', 1872-1885. Cura- 
tor of Mineralogy, 1874-1885. Died 1885. The Society owes more to 
Dr. Wright than to any member it has ever had. Dr. Wright, Dr. C. 
F. Ingham and Sheldon Reynolds, Esq., together placed the Society 
on firm ground during the years from 1875 to 1885. 

84. Joseph Wright, Carpenter Family. 

1785-1855. Father of Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, and uncle of Dr. Harrison 
Wright. Died 1855. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS. 43 

S5. Calvin Wadhams Carpenter .... Mrs. C. Wadhams. 

Original Member, 1858. Recording Secretary, 1862-1865, 1870-1871. Treas- 
urer, 1862-1867. Corresponding Secretary, 1869. President, 1873. 
Died 1883. 

86. Hon. John Bannister Gibson, LL. D., 1780-1853, {Bust). 

Resident of Wilkes-Barre, 1813. Judge of Luzerne county, 1806. Chief 
Justice Supreme Court of Penn'a, 1827-1853. Died 1853. 

87. Rev. James O. Woodruff, D. D., {Photograph). 

1837-1896. Pastor First Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barrfe, 1883- 
1885. Pittston, 1879-1880. Kingston, 1881-1882. Plymouth, 1894-1895. 
Died 1896. 

88. Thomas Wright {Photograph) . . Hon. C. A. Miner. 

1748-1820. Founder of the Wright-Miner Mill, Mill Creek, Luzerne coun- 
ty, 1790, now Miner-Hillard Mill, which has had a continuous exist- 
ence for 117 years. 

89. Col. John Wilkes, {Engraving) . . . Harrison Wright. 

1727-1797. Lord Mayor of London, 1774. Member British Parliament. 
Colonel of Militia. Editor of the " North Briton," warm friend of 
America, 1774-1783. Wilkes-Barre is named for Col. John Wilkes, and 
Col. Isaac BarrS, g. v. Died 1797. 

90. George Washington, 1732-1799, Stuart {Engraving). 

First President of the United States. 

91. George Washington Williams {Engraving). 

In Masonic regalia. Lodge 61, F. and A. M. 



92. Isaac S. Osterhout, Dubois. . / Deposited by Osterhout 

(. Free Library. 

93. Mrs. Isaac S. Osterhout, Dubois. . / Deposited by Osterhout 

(. Free Library. 

94. Commander David Jewett, U. S. N {Photograph). 

1772-1842. Commander U. S. Navy, 1799-1801. Went to South America, 
served in Chilian Navy. Was " Brigadier General of the Armada of 
Brazil." Resident of Wilkes-Barre, 1827-1836. Died Brazil, 1842. 

95. Hon. Charles Miner, Carpenter . . . Mrs. E. E. Thomas. 

17S0-1865. Member, 1864-1865. The "Historian of Wyoming." Editor. 
Author. Member U. S. Congress. 

96. Hon. Stewart Pearce, Ationytnous .... Rev. J. J. Pearce. 

Original Member, 1S58. Honorary Member, 1SS2. Author of "Annals of 
Luzerne County." 

97. William Ross Maffet, Carpenter .... Mrs. S. R. Maffet. 

Original Member, 185S. Life Member, 18S9. Died 1R90. 

98. H. Baker Hillman, Carpenter Family. 

Member, 1S85. Life Member, 1889. Died 1899. 

99. General Isaac Bowman. {Photograph). . Miss Ella Bowman. 

1773-1S50. Brig. Gen., 1814. Register Luzerne county, 1830-1841. Died 1S5C. 



44 LIST OF PORTRAITS. 

too. Edward Payson Darling, (Photograph). 

Member, i870-:889. Trustee, 1S84-18S9. Died 1889. 

loi. Hon. Ziba Bennett, 1800-1878, Anonymous .... Geo. S. Bennett. 

Original Member, 18.S8-1878. Vice President, 1874-1876, 1877-1878. Presi- 
dent Wyoming National Bank. Associate Judge Luzerne county, 1842. 
Died 1878. 

102. Hon. Timothy Pickering, LL. D., (^Photograph') . Miss Mary Bowman. 

1745-1829. Colonel, 1775. Judge, 1775. Adjutant General Continental 

Army, 1779. Quarter Master General, 1780. 
Clerk Common Pleas, Court of Sessions, and Orphans' Court of Luzerne 

county, 17S6-1791. Judge Common Pleas Luzerne county, 1786-1791. 
Post Master General U. S., 1791-1795. Secretary War, 1795. Secretary 

State, 1795-1800. U. S. Senator, 1803-1811. Member Congress, 1814. 

Died 1829. 

103. Caleb Earl Wright, (Engraving). 

Original Member, 1858-1S73. Member Luzerne County Bar, 1833. Author 
of "Wyoming," 1864, etc. Died 1889. 



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